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KATE HAVELIN

St. Paul, Minnesota 55104

651-642-1242

               katehavelin@gmail.com              www.katehavelin.com

 

 

Experience:

Worked as a freelance writer from 1996 to present,

writing eighteen nonfiction books and many articles and essays.

 

Worked as a National Park Service Ranger at the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, summer 2011. From 2009 to present, volunteered weekly at the NPS Visitor Center.

 

Worked as a TV producer at WCCO from 1985-1996, writing news and feature stories.

 

Led several Twin Cities groups from 2001 to 2009, including local chapters of the National Writers Union, Professional Editors Network, and Million Mom March.

 

Awards:
2011 Macalester College Alumni Service Award

 

2011 National Park Service Volunteer of the Year,

         MN National River and Recreation Area

 

2008 Midwest Book Awards

         Best Sports, Travel, and Recreation Book Finalist

 

2007 Amelia Bloomer Project’s Recommended Books

         for Young Feminists

 

2006 Midwest Book Awards

         Best Sport, Travel, and Recreation Book

 

2004 Twin Cities Association for Women in Communications

         Crystal Clarion Award

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105  

Anthropology major; journalism minor 

 

Credit: Jalissa Nawrocki
 
Recent Books:
Hoopskirts, Union Blues & Confederate Grays: 

Civil War Fashions,  Lerner Publications 2012

 

Buckskin Dresses and Pumpkin Breeches:

Colonial Fashions, Lerner Publications 2012

 

Best Hikes of the Twin Cities, Adventure Publications 2008

 

Victoria Woodhull: Fearless Feminist, Lerner 2007

 

Che Guevara, Lerner Publications, 2007

 

Minnesota Running Trails: Dirt, Gravel, Rocks & Roots, Adventure Publications, 2006

 

Andrew Johnson, Lerner Publications, 2005

 

Ulysses S. Grant, Lerner Publications, 2004

 

Queen Elizabeth I, Lerner Publications, 2002